Word: disconnect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defined by what no longer exists, the cold war, and still uses a vocabulary now out of date." The fact that Bush gets diminishing credit for the U.S. victory in the cold war during his watch is a larger sign of rot on the right. "There's an amazing disconnect," says one of Bush's top campaign advisers, "between the President and conservative leaders. They can't forget that he didn't come out of their movement the way Reagan did." Nor does Bush get much respect for his vigorous pandering to right-wing concerns...
Harvard police officials were scheduled to disconnect the closed-circuit television network by early this week, and the undercover detail was canceled during the summer of 1990, according to Sgt. Lawrence J. Fennelly...
...curious distinction. Somehow Tsongas has managed to disconnect ambitions that have always seemed inseparable. For the moment, the message is what really matters. Either his ideas are vital to the country, Tsongas says, or he will go down in flames. Until that becomes clearer, he will stay resolved. "I must not do what Democrats usually do," he says, "and bend to special interests. I am the message. If I bend, I have no message...
...look six months back, have either . been involved in an accident or have had a moving violation. So generally we advise that Alzheimer's patients shouldn't drive. Sometimes, if this upsets the patient, I tell the family, Put the car away and say it's been stolen. Disconnect the battery and say the car is not working. Steal the keys, if you have...
...Hennepin have failed to persuade the retired attorney to transfer his wife to another facility or file for an injunction that would force the hospital to continue care. Therefore they plan to take a disturbing and unprecedented step: asking a state court to grant the hospital permission to disconnect Helga's life-support systems. "We don't feel the physicians should be forced by the family to provide inappropriate medical care," says Dr. Michael Belzer, Hennepin's medical director...